Connie Schultz: This Could Be Melania Trump's Barbara Bush Moment [View all]

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This Could Be Melania Trump's Barbara Bush Moment
By Connie Schultz

April 25, 2019 6 min read

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Countless doctors and children's advocates have sent letters to the Trump administration about the dangers of these long-term separations. Nearly 8,000 mental health experts signed a petition with this warning: "To pretend that separated children do not grow up with the shrapnel of this traumatic experience embedded in their minds is to disregard everything we know about child development, the brain, and trauma."

Journalists have chronicled how, after just three months' separation, some of these young children no longer recognize their parents. Grieving parents describe bright and engaged kids changed by the wounds of trauma.

Donald Trump's response: Let's do it again.

There is one person in this administration who could force his hand.

Go to the border, first lady Melania Trump.

Take the reporters and photographers with you and go cradle the babies that your husband wants to rip from parents' arms. Hold the hands of those mothers and fathers, and listen to them describe why they have risked everything to flee and save their children's lives. Hear the anguish in their voices. See the fear in their eyes.

At the Easter roll, you read Emily Winfield Martin's book, "The Wonderful Things You Will Be." You held up that page and asked the children gathered around you, "Will you stand up for good by saving the day?"

Go to the border, Mrs. Trump.